The LibreOffice Quality Assurance ( QA ) Team is happy to announce LibreOffice 7.2 Alpha1 is ready for testing! LibreOffice 7.2 will be released as final in mid August, 2021 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 7.2 Alpha1 the first pre-release since the development of version 7.2 started at the end of November, 2020. Since then, 5971 commits have been submitted to the code repository and more than 1040 bugs were set to FIXED in Bugzilla. Check the release notes to find the new features included in this version of LibreOffice. LibreOffice 7.2 Alpha1 can be downloaded from here for Linux, MacOS and Windows, and it can be installed alongside the standard version. In case you find any problem in this pre-release, please report it in Bugzilla ( You just need a legit email account in order to create a new account ). For help, you can contact the QA Team directly in the QA IRC channel or via Telegram. LibreOffice is a volunteer-driven community project, so please help us to test – we appreciate it! Happy testing!!
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QA/Dev Report: April 2021
General Activities LibreOffice 7.1.2 was released on April 1st Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) wrote a nice report about the progress done by the Macro Team in the last year Stanislav Horacek updated some menu paths in Help. Seth Chaiklin clarified the meaning of numbered paragraphs in Help. Olivier Hallot (TDF) made 20 changes and additions to Help with topics including menus, Calc cell protection and direct formatting. Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library. Rafel also made it so word wrapping in shapes is enabled by default in Impress and Draw. Xisco Faulí (TDF) made about 30 improvements and additions to unit and UI tests, fixed some regression bugs and added an automated check for translation domains in .ui files Rizal Muttaqin made updates to all icon themes Jan-Marek Glogowski, Armin Le Grand and Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) worked on the WASM build in a feature branch Tibor Nagy (NISZ) fixed losing internal hyperlinks upon PPTX import Vert D improved renaming behaviour in the Template Manager Tushar Kumar Rai fixed a Data Provider crash Roland Kurmann fixed filtered/transpose paste in Calc while adding many new unit tests for the
QA/Dev Report: March 2021
General Activities LibreOffice 7.0.5 was released on March 12 LibreOffice 7.1.1 was released on March 4 LibreOffice was accepted as a project for the Googgle Summer of Code 2021 program Ilmari Lauhakangas (TDF) created a new wiki widget to help with navigating the Calc function documentation Steve Fanning made corrections to the Help content for Calc’s database functions Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library. Rafael also updated Slide menu help for Impress and added an example for using hyperlink to folders in Writer and Calc Adolfo Jayme Barrientos and Johnny_M made smaller fixes and cleanups to Help pages Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the Help for Java, Special characters dialog, font embedding and made cleanups Seth Chaiklin made nearly 50 changes and additions to Help, with topics including list formatting, menus, chapter numbering, page styles and shortcuts. He also made many improvements to tooltips and labels in LibreOffice. Among the people he worked with on perfecting the changes were Mike Kaganski (Collabora) and Dieter Praas. Akshit Kushwaha changed the QR code encoder library to zxing-cpp, which will allow implementing barcode support. René Engelhard and Mike Kaganski helped
QA/Dev Report: February 2021
General Activities LibreOffice 7.1 Community was released on February 3 Steve Fanning made corrections to the Help content for Calc functions Jean-Pierre Ledure worked on the ScriptForge library Alain Romedenne and Rafael Lima improved the Help content for the ScriptForge library Olivier Hallot (TDF) updated the Help for Calc’s View menu and made many smaller fixes and reorganisations in Help Seth Chaiklin made 27 changes and additions to Help, with topics including menus, styles and AutoCorrect. He also made many improvements to tooltips and labels in LibreOffice Srijita Mallick and Akshit Shan created their first unit test and their first accessibility improvements George Bateman added a “Keep asking during this session” checkbox to Calc’s paste import options dialog Andrzej Hunt (Google) improved the fuzzing setup Dipanshu Garg made it so information about Calc’s Jumbo sheet status appears in the About dialog Deb Barkley-Yeung added a unit test for BColorModifier Andreas Kainz improved the Notebookbar and Sidebar UIs Justin Luth (Collabora/SIL) fixed character highlight issues related to numbering, fixed a Writer crash related to superscript, a superscript applying issue with DOCX export and a bulleted list copying problem with imported DOC files David Tardon (Red Hat) made it possible to dump